❓What is Redemption? 

🛍️ Think of redemption like purchase – but in this case, it's the most important purchase ever made.

🎫 Just as you might redeem a coupon at a store, Jesus redeemed you, but not with money.

❤️ Instead, He purchased you with something far more precious: His own holy and precious blood and His innocent suffering and death.

✨ Here's what makes this so incredible: your value isn't determined by what you can do or who you are.

💎 In life, things are worth what someone is willing to pay for them. (If someone is willing to pay $10K for a diamond, that's what it's worth.)

💫 By this measure, you are priceless because Jesus paid the ultimate price for you.

🤗 He saw everything about you — even the parts you might be ashamed of — and still chose to pay that enormous price.

👶 Through this redemption, God pays the price for you to become His child.

🌱 While we want to be independent, we are "owned" by God, and He gives us our identity.

🏡 We are owned by someone who cares for us, and we don't have to earn our worth.

💝 You're a precious possession that's been bought at an enormous price.

🎁 Unlike those impulse purchases we sometimes make and forget about, God cherishes you and continues to care for you.

⚓ This identity as one of God's redeemed children can't be taken away from you, even in difficult times.

🌅 While you might have painful moments, they don't change your worth or who you are.

✝️ You're someone Christ has bought with a price, someone Jesus saves. That's your permanent identity, and it's a tremendous source of comfort.

Contributor Rev. Harrison Goodman is the Higher Things Content Executive.

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